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Quick read/perspective on #blended and #flipped and how it impacts the data, assessment and roles of teachers and students

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Nice examples of different models of blended learning. While the latest "Classifying  Blended Learning" changes some of the nomenclature in this visual, I think this gives us a nice starting base to what it can look like, where it is occurring and where we can take it, next.
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Trying to find the perfect storm for what it "looks" like to be a teacher utilizing a blended learning model.
It seems clear to me that this is a good place to start the conversations.
For me it's always been about tight feedback loops, leveraged interactions, and student centric drivers.

"In a blended learning program, the teacher should be prepared to:




assess, analyze and aggregate data
use data as an integral part of the planning process for each individual student, groups of students and the whole class
use benchmark tests and other assessments to direct instruction at different levels (individual, group, class)"

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I like where the author is going here. I get excited when I see some great innovation coming from my school district. Here is an example. Unfortunately though, building these robust and full implementation environments hasn't been done within the public school system. Let's change that.

"Hockey great Wayne Gretzky once said, “I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.”  However, innovation has rarely come from the state, policy makers or school districts. Rather, It’s up to them to encourage innovative teachers and schools to rethink technology tools and get out of the way. We all need to skate in that direction."

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24 articles and posts getting smart about blended learning.
This is a great place to get started when thinking about blended learning.
I also think this is a great summer "reading club" activity idea where a team or school could unpack these and other reading to develop some background info or ideas around what this might look like in their school next fall.

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What happened to the newspaper and magazine business is about to happen to higher education: a rescrambling around the Web.

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A couple of quick takeaways for me are that it's nice to see professional development called out as something we need, but we really have to get away form the paradigm of thinking it's something we do "to" teachers or is done "to" us.  The other takeaway I have after reading this is around a question I've asked before. If we're truly "blending" our teaching and environment, what does the space look like? How can we professionally develop as teachers to be better prepared to adapt and modify our existing learning spaces to better meet the needs of a flexible, student centric, tech infused learning environment? If shifting the ENTIRE teaching model paradigm upside down is NOT an option, what is? Is this something that needs to be built, modeled, and then iterated?

I culled some nuggets from the reading.

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Great stuff coming from +George Siemens in this slide deck. Paid particular attention to slide 40 "Reed's Law." I personally  and us as a team have been looking at different change models. I had not thought about the tipping point in relation to what we're doing with edmodo and getting enough users to hit that point where the sub groups have teeth and the hill from which I've been dancing alone becomes filled with other crazy hill dancer people. :) h/t +Derek Sivers 

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it's worth keeping an eye on the link between our vanishing boredom and our lack of innovation. It's the sort of trend that could literally destroy the world without anyone realizing what the root problem is

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